“MONSANTO PROTECTION ACT” BRINGS IMMUNITY TO REGULATION OF FOOD TO YOUR DINNER TABLE. It was done quietly last week, an obscure provision slipped into a congressional spending bill, the passage and presidential signing of which averted a government shutdown. The so-named provision allows Monsanto and other corporate food processors exemption from federal regulation by [...]
MILITARY UBER ALLES: LIBERTARIAN WRITER DECRIES THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN LIFE. Jason Raimondo examines two chunks in the edifice of the structure of military dominance of the culture. (1) the recent decision to allow women into combat roles, which he sees as a triumph of equality over liberty, an “opportunity” for women to share in the [...]
THE FACTS BE DAMNED, THE U.S. AND ISRAEL MAINTAIN THAT IRAN IS A MAJOR THREAT TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. Numerous independent reports and even one by the U.S. Intelligence Agency have established that Iran is nowhere near a “red line” of nuclear development that could represent any kind of serious threat to other nations. [...]
While new questions swirl about the influence of Islamists among rebel groups in Syria, the United States has moved significantly closer to direct military intervention in the brutal civil war by pledging a sizable increase in aid to opposition groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies. The aid promised by the Obama administration [...]
L.A. UNDRESSED BY RUTH FOWLER. British journalist and screen-writer who wrote “Girl, Undressed,” based on her experience in the New York City sex trade, deconstructs the public outrage concerning Christopher Dorner, the deranged former LAPD officer turned cop killer. As usual, public notice focuses on the derangement and not what was in the mind [...]
Long predicted to emerge as the next theater of military operations and intelligence services, cyber warfare has finally come of age in a string of global attacks and retaliatory strikes stretching from China to the highest echelons of the U.S. government. But the steps the Obama administration say must be taken to protect the nation [...]
(Principled Progressive returns on Wednesday. Have a safe and happy 2013!) SIBEL EDMONDS’ PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR: SAME OLD, SAME OLD, MORE “WAR ON …WHATEVER.” A noted whistleblower posts her year-end assessment as the old year splutters out and and the new year rings in. Piece of cake, she says. When one puts [...]
OBAMA’S DIGESTION: DOES HE “HAVE THE STOMACH TO CARRY ON ANOTHER WAR?” Apparently so, says Jason Hirthler, as he notes the bi-partisan “imperial lockstep” between the two major parties as, for example, Defense Secretary Panetta places cruise missiles in Turkey for its conflict with Syria, and State Secretary Clinton jiggles the nerves by talking of [...]
WAYWARD U.S. DRONE BECOMES PRETEXT FOR WAR WITH IRAN. Just days after the U.S. election in which President Barack Obama and his policy to leave “all options on the table” when it comes to military action against Iran was reelected, the Pentagon announces that a U.S. drone has been shot at by an Iranian [...]
PRETEXT FOR WAR?—WHO IN SYRIA IS LAUNCHING SHELLS INTO TURKEY? As NATO condemns the Syrian government for “stray” shells hitting inside Turkey, General in charge of military operations in the area says it is uncertain whether they came from the government or from elements of the Syrian opposition and the Kurdish minority in Turkey, [...]
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